1st Edition
Teaching High School Grammar with Mentor Texts Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 9-12
Introduction Section One: Lesson Plans Recommended For Grades 9 and 10 1. Enhancing Understanding: Absolute Phrases 2. Descriptive Tools: Participial Phrases 3. Providing Detail: Prepositional Phrases 4. Elaboration and Information: Relative Clauses 5. Context and Explanation: Subordinate Clauses 6. Linking Ideas: Semicolons 7. Opposing Terms: Oxymorons 8. Language Choices: Euphemisms Section Two: Lesson Plans Recommended For Grades 11 and 12 9. Varying Sentence Construction: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences 10. Getting Active and Passive: The Active and Passive Voices 11. Making Big Statements: Hyperbole 12. Contradiction for a Reason: Literary Paradoxes 13. Hyphenation Station: Hyphenation Conventions 14. Knowing Nuance: Nuances in the Meanings of Words With Similar Denotations 15. Getting Specific: Specific Nouns and Verbs Section Three: Final Thoughts and Resources Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C
Biography
Sean Ruday is a professor and program coordinator of English education at Longwood University.
